Archive for April, 2009

Service Level Dashboard v2.0

April 30, 2009

At today’s MMS session on the SLD Solution Accelerator they announced that the release of this new version for R2 will RTM at the same time as R2. The beta is available on Connect if you are looking at the RC of OpsMgr R2.
https://connect.microsoft.com/programdetails.aspx?ProgramDetailsID=2249

V1 used SRS but v2 uses WSS (the free version of [...]

MMS Keynote – Brad Anderson

April 29, 2009

Brad Anderson did this morning’s keynote. This was more focused than yesterdays but was still quite low energy with not much excitement or feedback from the audience. Most of his talk was futures and about focusing on the client and end up with a demo of the next version of Config Manager showing that an [...]

OpsMgr R2 Availability

April 28, 2009

At the keynote at the MMS they announced that OpsMgr 2007 R2 would be available in 30 days.
Remember, R2 is only free to organisations that have bought OpsMgr 2007 with Software Assurance. If you have OpsMgr without SA then you would need to buy new licences for all your management servers and agents. From [...]

MMS 2009 1st Day

April 28, 2009

I arrived at Las Vegas on Saturday so I had some time to get over the 8 hour time difference. It was nice to be able to walk around on Sunday in the sunshine. The Venetian is a great hotel and it is a lot quicker to get to the convention from the rooms compared [...]

Updated HP Management Packs

April 22, 2009

I was about to install the HP MPs but thought that I would check and found that there are new versions on the HP site since my last download but there are no dates on the web site. The new versions are 1.2 for Proliant and 1.7 for Blade Systems.
http://h20392.www2.hp.com/portal/swdepot/displayProductsList.do?groupName=HP+Server+integrations+with+Microsoft+System+Center+products
The Blade MP was dated 24th [...]